Minstead is a small village and civil parish in the New Forest, Hampshire, about 2 miles north of Lyndhurst and south of the A31 road.
Minstead
Pub sign on the Trusty Servant inn
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his as
Minstead
…from the 13th century. The rest of the building, in red brick, is of 18th-century or later date, including the tower. The font is 12th century. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is buried in the churchyard as is his daughter Jean Conan Doyle. The church has two large galleries and a three-decker pulpit. The church also boasts…
Portrait of Doyle by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1893
Professor Challenger by Harry Rountree in the novella The Poison Belt published in The Strand Magazine
Portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget, 1904
Sherlock Holmes statue in Edinburgh, erected opposite the birthplace of Doyle, which was demolished c. 1970